[ale] Centos

Preston preston.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 10:45:50 EDT 2014


On 7/25/2014 7:58 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
> I will note that btrfs is no longer "beta" and is now used in production environments far larger and with far more robust requirements than anything I have had to build for a client, for sure.
>
> The data structures are sound and it scales much better than ext* for volumes > 2 TB, when you need more than about 20,000 entries in a directory, or when you need to not mess with complex middlewares between FS and block device for any one of a number of reasons. It provides better robustness than LVM or mdraid in many situations too, because all redundancy assurances are per object, not per block device.
>
> Doesn't reduce the need for a quality backup regimen, though. Nothing ever will. 

just a quick note, I didn't realize that my old "df -h" command wouldn't
list the correct drive usage while running a btrfs filesystem. glad it
was pointed out to me before I really started throwing stuff at it.

Preston

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